Time to Teach

1/16/2007

The Real AlternativeTime to TeachThere is a choice that you have power to make when you have seen the real alternatives. Until that point is reached you have no choice, and you can but decide how you would choose the better to deceive yourself again. This course attempts to teach no more than that the power of decision cannot lie in choosing different forms of what is still the same illusion and the same mistake. All choices in the world depend on this; you choose between your brother and yourself, and you will gain as much as he will lose, and what you lose is what is given him. How utterly opposed to truth is this, when all the lesson's purpose is to teach that what your brother loses you have lost, and what he gains is what is given you.

ReadingA.Chapter 22 IV. The Branching of the RoadLesson 185 I want the peace of GodManual for Teachers 1. Who Are God’s Teachers?

B.Chapter 21 VII. The Last Unanswered QuestionLesson 165 Let Not my mind deny the Thought of GodManual for Teachers 9. Are Changes Required in the Life Situation of God’s Teachers?

C.Chapter 31 IV. The Real AlternativeLesson 133 I will not value what is valuelessManual for Teachers 12. How Many Teachers of God are Needed to Save the World?

InquiryWhat are the alternatives open for your choosing?According to what criteria can you tell what is, and what is not, a real and valuable option for choice?What do you need to realize to bring the salvation of the world within the power of your decision?How does a fundamental change and an actual escape from hell occur?

PresentationDo you remember the moment in time, or the phases in your awakening when it became clear to you that you were in need of a real alternative and not just another substitute or signpost within the world?What was it that offered or triggered to you the promise and possibility of this alternative?What is the way appointed to you, now that you have seen and experienced the real alternative?

I am grateful again to be able to sit down andcompletely immerse myself into this new topic that hasinspired me. I really enjoy the new direction that iwas directed to take concerning the mannner in whichto sequence and organise these new and reworkedassignments for the time to teach classes.

To approach an overall theme for four weeks from fourdifferent angles i find very inspiring and enriching.I find that i can fall deeper into the true meaning ofthe central course topic that is being conveyed to meand with which i become more comfortable and familiar.

Last week we taught the Power of Decision, this weekwe couple our decision with the irreversablerecognition of the unchanging nature of this selfsamedecision. Now our minds are made aware of what thereal alternatives are.

We put a stop to the wavering and meandering of theway in which we used our divine and all powerfulminds. Instead we are guided and reminded here to thesolid realisation that once a decision is made withthe power of heaven to uphold it,it cannot be undone.

The only 'choice' we still have is to deceiveourselves about the nature of the alternatives and tocover up the decision that we made long ago. Over thenature of the outcome of our choice we have no powersince the alternatives are predetermined but we dohave to go with one or the other since everything inbetween is evil.

Once again the course merely helps you to sort out thetrue from the false, eternal from temporal, valueablefrom valueless.But the most important revelation and message fromthis theme and this assignment is that you yourselfare delivered to the insightful experience that youare the only one to offer and extend and manifestthis real alternative and no other than you.

We are coming clean in these lessons and for a momentcome to a halt and review the choices we have madethus far. Let's appreciate and become powerfully awareof our true function within and as the realalternative itself. Allow yourself to really findtruth and recognition of your identity and truefunction in this assignment, these words and thismessage.

1/07/2007

All power on earth and heaven is given you. And herewith this assignment we are asked to realisticallylook at where exactly this power lies.

Why does the lesson 152 say:"The power of decision ismy own" and not all power is given to you, to do withas you please?

How do i apply my mind to the making of all the rightdecisions? How willing am i to follow theseinstructions? How ready am i to take responsibility for the masteryover the outcome and 'effects' of my decisions?

Last week we focused mostly on the intention of yourmind to learn how to make the decisions that give youthe outcome that you want.

This week we get in touch with mind as the mechanismof the decision, what are the options between which wechoose? How real is the making of these decisions? Andhow essential and inevitable is it to understand ourrole in the 'process' of choice and how much is set instone?How powerful is our choosing?

Lots of questions here already! I hope you recognizethe necessity to teach this, the same way that i do.How complacent i get, when i don't give the experienceand the truth of this offering from our Jesus'master-mind away. I recognize a strong need to standin the uncompromising way, truth and life of thismessage.

I love you and let's do this.

With Love and Dedication Bastiaan

Power of DecisionTime to TeachNo one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one suffers pain except his choice elects this state for him. No one can grieve nor fear nor think him sick unless these are the outcomes that he wants. And no one dies without his own consent. Nothing occurs but represents your wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose. Here is your world, complete in all details. Here is its whole reality for you. And it is only here salvation is.

ReadingA.Lesson 138 Heaven is the decision I must makeChapter 5 II. The Voice for God

B.Lesson 152 The power of decision is my ownChapter 21 II. The Responsibility for Sight

C.Lesson 190 I choose the joy of God instead of painChapter 8 IV. The Gift of Freedom

InquiryExplain the role of decision making in the practice of mind-training!Explain mind as the mechanism of decision!Can a decision be undone once it is made?What makes a decision permanent and capable of genuine change?

PresentationWhat are the alternatives that are open to your choosing?Why does all your power lie in your decision?What power belongs with God and which power with you?

Happy new year. This is a new beginning. The first dayof the new year. For me it was the finest example offeeling entirely separate and again recognizing theonly solution to be entire surrender to God and hisLove which i need in its entirety to restore me to myown awareness of completion and wholeness. Therelinquishment of my self-identity. We even havemethods for that. One of them is called a Course InMiracles. And for this week's topic and time to teachassignment we will look at the exact procedures tocamcel out all interference between what we reallyreally want and all the ways in which we think we canreach that goal. So what we really want has neverchanged, it is now clarified at the beginning and thenthe means in which the goal is realised is approachedsystematically by giving up and cancelling out anyinvolvement with which we attempt to reach the goal. Aperfect example in which we step back and are shownthe very practical aspects of that action within ourown mind. From the pure intention of not makingdecisions by ourself. I love you and which you thebest for this new year. Practice this course and youwill receive the benefits of a new day, a brand newbeginning and the means to make your happinessconsistent and permanent.I am the Way, the Truth and the Life

Love Bastiaan

New BeginningTime to TeachThe new beginning now becomes the focus of the curriculum. The goal is clear, but now you need specific methods for attaining it. The speed by which it can be reached depends on this one thing alone; your willingness to practice every step. Each one will help a little, every time it is attempted. And together will these steps lead you from dreams of judgment to forgiving dreams and out of pain and fear. They are not new to you, but they are more ideas than rules of thought to you as yet. So now we need to practice them awhile, until they are the rules by which you live. We seek to make them habits now, so you will have them ready for whatever need.

First readingChapter 30 I. Rules for Decision

Second reading

AChapter 5 VII. The Decision for God

BChapter 14 III. The Decision for Guiltlessness

CChapter 31 VIII Choose Once Again

Inquiry What is the new focus of this curriculum!What are the specific methods and rules of thought for attaining the goal of this course?What are the procedures to be followed, to give you the day you want?What are the steps that will help you cancel out your own interference?What agreement you are asked to make, permits all things to happen?

PresentationHow exactly do you turn these ideas into rules of thought! Do it!What makes one a true follower or disciple of Jesus?

Here is the next one already. The last assignment ofthe Christmas series and the last one of this year.What better way than to come to experience the Peaceof God which we could say is the purpose of doingthis A Course In Miracles after all. A greatconcluding and powerful set of readings andworkbookpractice combined with only three mostfundamental questions that Jesus poses in our firstreading of the Manual for Teachers What is the Peaceof God?How is the Peace of God recognized?Secondly How is the Peace of God found? And beingfound how is the Peace of God retained?Answer these questions and you you will have a veryclear understanding of what this Course really offersyou and how we can achieve the goal of this Course.I wish you all a blessed Christmas celebration and maythese days be holy and joyful for you. If you havesome time around christmas read some of the sections igave you in the previous assignment about the Time ofChrist with your friend(s) or family since Christmasis still upcoming and then close this year with a trueexperience of the Peace of God. Not a bad plan is it?I love you and wish you a merry Christmas and a happynew year. And thank you for your dedication inteaching this message of Christ with me and inallowing this to become a true experience for youpersonally and for the extension of your light anddemonstration of the Way the Truth and the Life. Iwill write, talk to you, hear from you and or see younext year.

Love BastiaanPeace of GodTime to Teach Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peacebegins within the world perceived as different, and leading fromthis fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answerto conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, andmeaningless endeavors. Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward thebridge where freedom lies within the peace of God.

First ReadingMFT 20. What is the Peace of God?

Second Reading

A.Lesson 34 I could see peace instead of thisLesson 185 I want the peace of GodChapter 13 VII. Attainment of the Real world

B. Lesson 109 I rest in GodLesson 188 The peace of God is shining in me nowChapter 29 V. The Changeless Dwelling Place

C.Lesson 74 There is no will but God’sLesson 200 There is no peace except the peace of GodChapter 13 XI. The Peace of HeavenInquiryHow is the Peace of God recognized?How is the Peace of God found?How is the Peace of God retained?

12/15/2006

Commencing ChristmasThe third assignment of this Christmas season iscompletely dedicated to the celebration of Christmas.Its true meaning and the most genuine manifestation ofChristmas through your own personal rebirth andreawakening from this funny dream. This is the Time ofChrist let us not forget the true significance ofthese days and the true gift it holds in store for us.A time in which i will forget about my little self andincrease my awareness of reality by returning to mytrue function of giving and forgiving here andcommunication and creation 'there'. I wish you a greattime and hope that you might find the peace of Godthat is truly available in these days of giving andsurrender to God.Love Bastiaan

Time of ChristTime to TeachThis is the season when you would celebrate my birth into the world. Yet you know not how to do it. Let the Holy Spirit teach you, and let me celebrate your birth through Him. The only gift I can accept of you is the gift I gave to you. Release me as I choose your own release. The time of Christ we celebrate together, for it has no meaning if we are apart.First ReadingNew Testament, Luke, Chapter 1 and 2&Ch.15 III. Littleness versus MagnitudeChapter 15 X. The Time of RebirthChapter 15 XI. Christmas as the End of Sacrifice

Second ReadingA.Ch.22 I. The Message of the Holy RelationshipLesson 182 I will be still an instant and go home.Lesson 303 The holy Christ is born in me today.

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B.Workbook What is the Christ? (pg. 431) Lesson 110 I am as God created me.Lesson 308 This instant is the only time there is.

InquiryWhat is the first Christmas you remember? What does Christmas represent for you?What does Jesus ask you to do, to remember his birth?How do you celebrate Christmas?

PresentationWhat is the gift you are born to give?What is the lesson you are born to teach?How do you tend to the birth and growth of the Christ Child?

12/05/2006

To Give is how to Live!

Hee you. This week's assignment for the academy class and for some of the other classes is the Attitude of Gratitude. But because i want to give some more preparation time for my paltalk friends i already send you the next week's assignment.

The act of giving is a very consistent topic that keeps coming back to mind and represents the whole action of A Course In Miracles. Give so you can live. Give so you may get out of your isolation and return to your original function of creation. Escape your self contained ideas of limitation and lack of self through the act of giving. Experiment, try something new, something you would never do since it so much contradicts your stale and old ideas of your self that make up your identity in boredom and death.

The act of giving. A whole new perspective on the concept of giving which stems directly from a newly conceived sense of freedom. No longer are you bound to objective reality and the observation of yourself in relation to other figures in your dream. No longer do you represent past memories of limitation, loss and different ways in which you used to sacrifice yourself for the bigger good. No more observation and formal relationships in which you repeat old grudges, and cast yourself and others into old stories in which you give in order to lose what you value the most. No more of that stuff.

You are now in the act of giving in order to experience something brand new. You give in order to break through. You live in order to give of yourself and discover that this is God's gift to you.Not to withhold, look back or withdraw and analyze your thoughts and actions but to step forward from the place where you truly find yourself into the discovery of your true value. You are now received by your brother and your value has therefore increased in your own sight; like Jesus would say it. Anyways a lot to be grateful for because there is a lot to give. And there is always plenty more from where this came from.

So protect all things you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them.

I love you and i truly hope you will discover the necessity for giving not only because of this Christmas season but because of the importance of giving for your realisation of this most precious gift that lays just before your feet in this road carpeted with miracles.You can tell i have been reading the Course perhaps a little too much if that is possible.

Bye for now and good luck teaching and demonstrating the act of genuine giving that starts within you, as you and will never leave you.

Love Bastiaan

Act of GivingTime to TeachProtect all things you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them. What you thought you did not have is thereby proven yours. Yet value not its form. For this will change and grow unrecognizable in time, however much you try to keep it safe. No form endures. It is the thought behind the form of things that lives unchangeable.

First ReadingLesson 187 I bless the world because I bless myself

Chosen Reading

A.Lesson 105 God’s peace and joy are mineLesson 166 I am entrusted with the gifts of GodChapter 11 I. The Gifts of Fatherhood

OrB.Lesson 108 To give and to receive are one in truthLesson 126 All that I give is given to myselfChapter 20 IV. Entering the Ark

Or C.Lesson 158 Today I learn to give as I receiveLesson 159 I give the miracles I have receivedChapter 27 V. The Healing Example

InquiryList all the beliefs of the world in regards to giving!Why is it important to undergo a thought reversal in regards to your view of giving?How do you recognize, accept and receive God’s gifts?What is the gift God wants you to give?Why do you think is the emphasis placed on the ‘act’ of giving?

PresentationGive one example of a true moment in which you gave something that you thought you didn’t possess until the moment that you gave it!Explain the transfer or transformational value of true giving?

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About Me

I am a teacher of A Course in Miracles. My first encounter with A Course in Miracles was through Jesus personally. He appeared to me as a bright light shining into my mind as the answer to my cry for help. Through people and places he helped me to be restored to the sanity and wholeness of my mind. I had unmistakable awakening experiences which led me to Teachers of God from Endeavor Academy in Wisconsin. I used up the world. My whole human existence has been uprooted and i am now deeply rooted in a true discipleship of Jesus. I became a vehicle of the universal communication of God and find myself in a resurrecting and healing modality of teaching this message of truth that was given me at the point where i was most desperate for a complete and uncompromising solution to my utterly conflicted separate human self-identity. Jesus lives in me now.